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Category Archives: Newsletter
Our grant engages students in activism
By Tim Wolcott After a circuitous, anxious trek through many hallways and a couple of flights of stairs, I neared the appointed Benjamin Franklin Elementary School classroom. I was glad to see through the open door, sun shining brightly onto … Continue reading
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Peace Dividend Lost in 1991 – Can We Get It in 2020?
By Jack Gilroy It’s April 2020, and the planet is in the midst of a pandemic. Our best epidemiologists still can’t predict how many more than the current number of over 40,000 will die in America from Covid – 19. … Continue reading
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Plowshares 7 Convicted
Brunswick, Georgia – late October No one was allowed to wear shirts with messages into the court room for the Kings Bay 7 Trident Plowshares Trial. Outside of the court house Veteran For Peace members, complete with a black and … Continue reading
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BCPA / Teach Peace Now School Grant Winner
Broome County Peace Action in collaboration with teachpeacenow.com have secured a modest victory for peace education (albeit a high quality one) with BCPA’s funding of Binghamton’s Benjamin Franklin Elementary School’s social action project, “Culturally Responsive Authors Club”. This is the … Continue reading
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Climate Change and Peace Issues
By Jim Clune A recent post by Medea Benjamin of Codepink connects numerous ways the climate crisis and militarism are intertwined. In this post, I’m paraphrasing her piece, as well as including other relevant facts. Ms. Benjamin states that our … Continue reading
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BCPA / VFP 2019 Peace Scarecrows
Broome County Peace Action and Broome County Veterans for Peace again collaborated on an entry in the county’s annual scarecrow competition at Otsiningo Park. While we did not win the competition, we did spread some public awareness that our groups … Continue reading
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Children’s Peace Fair
Veterans for Peace & Peace Action of Broome County worked together to produce a Children’s Peace Fair this past Hiroshima Day, August 6. Adults said it was a resounding success. The abundant, joyful sound of children support that conclusion. Early … Continue reading
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Our Main Mission: No Nuclear Weapons
By Jim Clune The original impetus to forming Broome County Peace Action was the Freeze Campaign of the 1980’s. However, the nuclear weapons never went away. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock is now set at 2 minutes to … Continue reading
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Weekly Peace Vigil Marks 20 Years of Standing Up For Peace
By Ann Clune On Monday, April 22 we marked the twenty-year anniversary of our weekly vigil for peace. Members of Broome County Peace Action, Broome County Veterans for Peace, and friends gathered in front of the Federal building on Henry … Continue reading
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Three Courageous Congresswomen
By Fred Trzcinski The jackals have been unleashed! The venom and the smears have been spreading daily, notably targeting three of our newest congressional representatives, viz., Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. Besides being “freshman” Members of our … Continue reading
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